HC Deb 14 February 1876 vol 227 c258
MR. BAXTER

asked the Postmaster General, If notice has been given to terminate the contracts with the Cunard and Inman Companies for carrying the Mails between this country and North America; and, if he can now state what new arrangements were to be proposed for conducting the service?

LORD JOHN MANNERS

, in reply, said, the notices in question were delivered on the 11th of August last, and he hoped soon to be in a position to state what the new arrangements would be.